Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1887-11-27

Dur1eu In q common SraVe-ueau iIoll
the cholera. About July goth Gen
eral Scott moved such of his troops
as were able to travel to camp or
the Desplains, where Riverside now
stands, and, after a rest of ten days
they started after the Indians. From
Chicago the cholera was distributed
to the forts and settlements in the
northwest, and was especially sever
in it's ravages at Prairie du CHEN,
Wisconsin, and Rock Island, Illinois.
From these points the pestilence was
taken down the Mississippi river tu
New Orleans.
The next great twelve-ye 'rly cpl
demic started in lower Bengal in l84l
advanced up the Persian Gulf, thence
to Trebizond on the Black Sea, to Con-
stantinople, up the Danube to Ger
many and Holland, and then to Eng
land. Toward the close of the year
1S4S some German emigrants left
Havre on the ship Swanton and Car
ried the disease to New Orleans. From
that city the Mississippi river steam
ers served as the means by which the
cholera was carried noithward to st.
Louis and Cincinnati. From St. Louis
it was carried by the great army OF
gnldseekers across the plains to San
Francisco. April 20, 1910, the disease
ma lie its appearance i'll Chicago, hav-
ing been brought up the | linois river
and the Illinois and Michigan canal.
The pestilence prevailed as an cpl
demic from July 25th until August
18th, duri x which time 1000 persons
were attacked, of whom 314 died
From Chicago the disease travelled
northward to KeHosah, Racine and
Milwaukee.
In April, 1865, another epidemic
commenced in India. The building
of railroads in the East and the'estab-
llshnent of fast steamship lines fur
nished rapid means of communication
with Eu ope and the disease spread
as fast ls steam could carry it about.
BY May 2d it had reached Mecca, on
the Red sea. and June I'd cases made
their appearance in Alexandria,
Egypt. The steamship Poona carried
it to Southampton, England, arriving
there July oath with 40 cases OH
board. The disease was also carried
up through France from Marse,]les
to Paris and Havre, and emig ant
shiis quickly transported it to New
Yo,k. From this point in 1866 the
railroads rapidly spre d the pesti-
lence westward, and it even went as
far toward the Pacific coast as Forts
Riley and Harker and the new city
of Ellsworth in Kansas, thus having
travelled l 900 miles from its source
inside OF about two years. July q,
1866, the cholera again made its APP
pearance in Chicago, and OWN. to the
filthy condition of the city it found
here ample food to feed upon. The
epiien ic prevailed until Novem Der
26th, when the asst death fro n cholera
wa, reported. During this period
1856 cas- were rep rted, in 1862 OF
which the disease was fatal. Since
1866 there have been no cases oi
cholera in Chicago.
The Juggernaut festival in 1877 and
the gathering at Hurdwar in 1879
served to mark outbreaks OF the pes
thence again. At Hurdwar loo, 900
pilgrims assembled and cholera in Il
severe form broke out few days be-
fore the close of the fair and ~a>
spread throughout Asia, but it did not
reach Europe in pestilent ial form.
The French incurs,o on OF Tonquin
was attended by disastrous results.
The armies suffered terribly from the
ravages of the disease, and in April,
1884, the scourge made its appearance
in Toulon, France, having been car
rie thither by Il ship from Tonquin.
The flight of fugitives from roulo,,
carried the infection to Marseilles. 1t
was al-o taken to Naples and Genoa.
in Italy. The virulence of the disease
was terrible, yet good ran tary precau,
tons prevented it's further spread
northward. Since then there has
been every year more or less OF the
disease along the Mediterranean
walters.
The quarantine regulations in New
York will undoubtedly prevent the in
PRODUCTION OF the cholera into this
country from the steamer now de-
tanned there, which recently arrived
from 1t liam ports with the disease on
board.-[Chicago Tribune.